Vivify Health raises $3M for home health monitoring platform

May 13, 2014 Leave a comment

Plano, Texas-based remote monitoring startup Vivify Health (formerly Intuitive Health) raised $3 million, according to an SEC filing. This brings Vivify Health’s total announced funding to at least $6.4 million to date.

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Three Harvard hospitals pilot Google Glass app Remedy

May 13, 2014 Leave a comment

Developer of a Google Glass app for doctors, Remedy, launched a pilot study with three Harvard hospitals in which they will provide physicians assistants who are handling night coverage in hospitals — a time when doctors are not around as often as during the day — with Google Glass so that they

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The Not-So-Distant Future When We Can All Upgrade Our Brains

May 13, 2014 Leave a comment

The analysts at the Institute for the Future present new research about our weird times. In a decade, cognitive enhancement may have gone mainstream. Pills can already help you stay up longer, bring more focus to your work, and who knows what else.

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The mosquito solution

May 11, 2014 Leave a comment

Dengue fever infects millions and kills tens of thousands of people around the world each year. But an Australian-led program is showing positive signs of turning this brutal disease into a bite-sized issue.

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Paralysis breakthrough – electrical stimulation enables four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs

May 11, 2014 Leave a comment

This weeks issue of the neuroscience journal Brain carries an unusual image; against a background of nerve activity traces a man lies on the ground, and as you scan down the images he lifts his right leg off the ground.

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Recycled blood is better than donated blood for transfusions, Hopkins study finds

May 11, 2014 Leave a comment

We recycle a lot of things — paper, plastic, metal, blood. Yes, blood. During some surgeries, operating room personnel try to capture as much blood as possible and return the red blood cells to your system, instead of, or in addition to, donated blood from a blood bank.

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These Boots Make Walking Easy Even When Carrying Heavy Loads

May 11, 2014 Leave a comment

These boots were made for walking (more effectively).

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SCiO : Your Sixth Sense. A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All ! by Consumer Physics, Inc. — Kickstarter

May 10, 2014 Leave a comment

Come meet our team and see a live demo. Dror, our CEO & co-founder, and Sagee are going to make it to DISRUPT NYC, Wednesday May 7th. You will get a chance to try out the SCiO experience with a hands-on demo of our working prototype and interact with the team. All are invited if you are around!

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Making the “Luke” Bionic Arm

May 10, 2014 Leave a comment

Today the FDA approved the marketing of Dean Kamen’s DEKA Arm, the robotic prosthetic affectionately known as the “Luke arm,” after Commander Skywalker’s famed replacement limb in The Empire Strikes Back. (Installed and poked by medical droid/action figure 2-1B, if memory serves.)

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In-Depth: Top 200 paid iPhone apps for medical professionals

May 10, 2014 Leave a comment

By MobiHealthNews’ count there are currently more than 35,000 unique, health-related apps available in various app stores. That includes everything from fitness and diet tracking apps to clinical decision support apps for doctors.

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